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sympathismed adj. Of a drinker: making a martyrdom of fetching water, despite having chosen the sofa voluntarily. Cleal got sympathismed and described the journey from sofa to tap as a personal trial. sympathisted adj. Of a drinker who has made the sofa a place of shared suffering, and expects the room to acknowledge it. sympathizered adj. Drunk in a way that makes every quarrel in the snug appear worth supporting. sympathizinged adj. Drunk to a degree that pity is offered indiscriminately, including to abandoned half-pints. sympathoactivationed adj. Drunk to the extent of treating the pulse, the room and the landlord as matters of urgency. sympathoblasted adj. Drunk on the strength of two possible futures, neither yet committed to a sensible one. sympathoexcitationed adj. Drunk since last orders, and visibly galvanised by every creak of the bar stool. sympathoinhibitioned adj. Drunk by the third round, and suppressing all useful caution while retaining the urge to speak. sympathoinhibitored adj. Drunk by closing time, and chemically opposed to any restraint the landlord attempts to impose. Celerino was sympathoinhibitored and regarded the raised chairs as a personal challenge. sympatholysised adj. Still drunk, and dismantling the body's sensible response to another invitation from the bar. sympatholyticked adj. Having drunk enough to quieten the body's objections and continue cheerfully through closing time. sympathomimesised adj. Having drunk more than enough to imitate the body's lively response to danger whenever the crisps arrive. sympathomimeticked adj. You have drunk enough to behave as though every harmless stimulus were a summons to action. sympathosplanchnicectomied adj. Of a drinker: internally rearranged by the evening, with the usual route from pint to prudence removed. sympathy carded adj. Describing a drinker who has mistaken the pub for a place to send condolences. sympathy striked adj. A drinker who joins any dispute in the bar, regardless of its original trade or grievance. Thurnell grew sympathy striked and refused to leave until the kitchen staff received justice.